How to choose fruits and berries
Tips / / December 19, 2019
Peaches and nectarines
If the summer could become a fruit, it would be a peach. They are better to buy in the market. Hold close to your face and smell. Choose peaches with a bright skin. It should be red, orange, pink. And the flesh - bright yellow, like a sunflower petals. Press lightly on the peach, it should be firm and not too soft.
We peel nectarines should be red with yellow speckles. These fruits better to have a rigid, so that they crunched when you bite them. Softened eat only when there are no other or when you forget about them, and then found somewhere in the far corner of the refrigerator.
Fruit with yellow flesh more fragrant, and white - a sweet. In white peaches and nectarines less acid, therefore they will sweet regardless of softness. The aroma of their delicate, floral, but not as intense as that of yellow. Choose to your taste.
Mango
Mango should be eaten ripe, when it literally flows from the juice. The taste of this fruit is sweet, slightly tart and rich flavor. The only drawback of mango is that it is difficult to clean. We'll have to tinker with a knife, and another stock plates and napkins, not to leave
spots of juice on everything around.Ripe mangoes - an elastic, not too soft. If the skin is wrinkled, fruit is overripe and started to rot inside. It should be smooth, uniform bright color, without spots. It does not matter if it has small dark spots. This indicates that the fruit is ripe.
Pay attention to the smell. It should be sweet and resinous. The mango sour smell has already begun the process of fermentation, such benefits are not worth buying. If the fruit does not smell, it tore immature. It will simply tasteless.
grapes
Look at the color of berries. Ripe green grapes has a yellowish tint. Red grapes must be saturated with wine-colored, with no green spots on the skin. A ripe purple grapes is very dark, almost black.
Ripe berries are firm and smooth, tightly attached to the stalk. If they themselves stalk green and flexible, grapes exactly fresh. Shriveled berries or wet - a sign that the grapes spoiled.
If matte whitish berries plaque, do not worry. It is a natural protection against rot and moisture loss. Even if the plaque does not wash off completely, there are berries safely.
plums
Drain any color - red, yellow, purple - should not be too soft. When lightly pressed berry should bounce. Do not buy or muddy shriveled berries. But very hard too avoid. They do not ripen, even if you leave them for a few days in a dark place.
All berries should be sweet, typical plum flavor. Gray plaque on the sink, as well as on grapes, protects the berries.
figs
It should be soft, but not too much. Do not buy fruit when they look wrinkled or they have cracks, which imply juice. But also a very smooth shiny skin is - also not an option. These benefits may not dospeli.
Figs are very perishable and can not be stored for long periods. Eat it within one to two days after purchase.
Watermelon
meat watermelon It should be sweet and crunchy, firm and not too watery. Ripe watermelon when tapped on it will emit a hollow sound, and when compressed - pop.
Look at the skin of watermelon. It should be shiny, and free of cuts and cracks, with well-defined stripes. On the side can be a small yellow spot. At this point, the watermelon in contact with the ground while growing up.
Cherry
Choose dark-red berries. They are the most ripe. Sami berries must be firm and shiny. Stalks - green and flexible. If they are dried up and darkened, so berries have long lie in store.
Look at the place of the stalk attachment. If there wrinkled skin, long berries were stored at room temperature. They can, and sweet, but not fresh.
tangerines
Tangerines primarily selected by smell. If it is full-bodied and sweet, ripe fruit exactly. To check this, gently rub your finger peel.
At the ripe tangerines peel not adjacent to the pulp is too tight. She is thin and easy to clean. And by pressing springs. Just do not press too hard, mandarins easy to crumple.
Check fruit weight. If they are heavy, so they have a lot of juice. Do not buy too soft tangerines with spots or dents. They were too long and began to deteriorate.
oranges
Pay attention to the weight of the fruit. The heavier the orange, so it is ripe and juicy. Choose firm oranges with a smooth thin skin.
But on the color can not always be relied upon. Some varieties, such as 'Valencia', again acquire a greenish tint when ripe. Dark spots on the skin did not say that the fruit is spoiled. Just a orange grown in hot, humid climates.
bananas
If you are going to use them immediately, buy already ripe - yellow, with small brown spots. If you want to save the fruit for several days, choose green. Such bananas ripen gradually. Ideal for food - bright yellow with greenish tips.
Do not buy a darkened too soft bananas. They have already begun to rot inside. A gray skin suggests that fruits stored at the wrong temperature. It is unlikely that they will be tasty.
Strawberry
The first thing you should notice - rich sweet flavor. This strawberry is ripe and delicious. If berries absolutely no smell, taste, and they will be empty.
Also pay attention to the color. Berries with white or green spots do not ripen. Best of all berries are bright red in color. Too dark color suggests that strawberries ripe.
Berries must be firm, without dents and damages. If they were a long time and become too soft, use them to baking or cook compote.
Raspberries
As with most other fruits and berries, pay attention to the flavor. At the ripe raspberry sweet it saturated. Choose firm, dry berries with no damage and mold. Different varieties of raspberry colors of varying intensity. The main thing that it was uniform with no green spots.
Raspberries are very few stores. Try to use it within a few days after purchase. Or freeze for future use. If the berries have become too soft, grind them in a blender and cook jam.
bilberry
Ripe blueberries uniform color, without redness. It may be a gray plaque. This is a natural protective layer.
Choose firm berries. Soft watery blueberry lying too long and has lost its savor. Like all the sour grapes, it is not stored for a long time, it is best to eat at once.
Garnet
Choose a large fruit with a bright color skin. Hold the grenade in his hand, it must be heavy - so it has a lot of juice. On the skin should be no stains, scratches and other damages. It should be smooth and free of wrinkles.
If the seeds are red, but the skin is darkened on the inside, that's okay. Such grenades may be eaten. But if the seeds themselves brown steel and softened, it is better to throw them away.
pomegranate can be clean in several ways. For example, you can cut it in half and each half turn outwards. Now take out the precious grains of one. Or sprinkle them with white skin in a bowl with water. Peel will emerge.
lichee
The lychee is larger, the better. Choose firm fruit, which when pressed a little spring, but do not release the juice. If the skin is wet and cracked, the fruit began to rot inside.
Different varieties of different color skin. Ripe lychee am red, orange, yellow color. But if the fruits turn brown, it means that they have already deteriorated. With ripe lychee peel is removed simply by hand. In overripe it tighter, it is necessary to separate the knife.
The flesh is juicy lychee, white, translucent. The taste is similar to grapes. If it has become quite clear, darkened or covered with mottled, spoiled fruit. Such is not to lychee.
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